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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
Stephen Richards
Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
Stephen Richards
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.
Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
If you think you can then you can.
Stephen Richards
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
What you focus on expands.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Money will only make you more of what you already are.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
Stephen Richards
Wealth File 1. Rich people believe "I create my life." Poor people believe "Life happens to me." 2. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. 3. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich. 4. Rich people think big. Poor people think small. 5. Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles. 6. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people. 7. Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people. 8. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion. 9. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems. 10. Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers. 11. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time. 12. Rich people think "both". Poor people think "either/or". 13. Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people focus on their working income. 14. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well. 15. Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money. 16. Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them. 17. Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Your field of focus determines what you find in life.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
And for the first time in my life, I saw something new reflected in the eyes that saw me. Respect. It taught me a very valuable lesson. That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others
Vikas Swarup (Q & A: Slumdog Millionaire)
It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a nonsupportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to “prove” yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
Dee Dee Artner
Robert Allen said something quite profound: “No thought lives in your head rent-free.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
Stephen Richards
you can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your ““blueprint”” isn’’t set for success, you’’re financially doomed.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.
Stephen Richards
Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins with your thoughts—which are produced by your mind.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.
T. Harv Eker (The Millionaire Mind Intensive 16 CD set "The Secret Psychology of Wealth" Volume I & II)
If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
I completely lost control. I was out of my fucking mind with the taste of her, the feel of her, those little moans of pleasure she made. Fuck, that woman completely unmans me. She consumes me to the point where my brain stops functioning entirely….
Franca Storm (Comfort Zone)
The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
Tell me your story and I will get back your life.
Stephen Richards
No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!
Stephen Richards
Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.
Stephen Richards
just realize that no amount of money can ever make you good enough. Money can’t make you something you already are.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
How do rich people think and act?
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.
Stephen Richards
Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!)
Run and hide or rise and shine ...
Stephen Richards
It’s simple. Your field of focus determines what you find in life.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
WEALTH PRINCIPLE: When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
How will I know when I’ve completed my mission?” The answer? “If you are still breathing, you are not done.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Universe, if anyone has something great coming to them and they’re not willing to take it, send it to me! I am open and willing to receive all of your blessings. Thank you.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Become your own success story, not someone else's.
Stephen Richards
There’s a saying that author and speaker Jim Rohn uses that makes perfect sense here: “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!” —T. Harv Eker
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over their minds and souls. Much humbug is talked on this subject. What is press freedom? In practice it means the right of a dew millionaires to corner newspaper shares on the stock exchange and to voice their own opinions and interests, irrespective of the truth or of the national interest.
Oswald Mosley (Fascism: One Hundred Questions Asked And Answered)
Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.
Stephen Richards
The more you learn, the more you earn…and you can take that to the bank!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Remove whatever you no longer need in your life, to make room for what you do need in your life.
Avis J. Williams
The second element of change is understanding. By understanding where your “way of thinking” originates, you can recognize that it has to come from outside you.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The size of the problem is never the issue—what matters is the size of you!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Your reality is a reflection of yourself
Avis J. Williams
The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ’em!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The Law of Income: You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you deliver according to the marketplace.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
either you control money, or it will control you. To control money, you must manage it.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
WEALTH PRINCIPLE: If you say you’re worthy, you are. If you say you’re not worthy, you’re not. Either way you will live into your story.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Trustworthy is earned not bought.
Dee Dee Artner
For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
And of these few charitable billionaires, how many are motivated by greed for a Nobel peace prize, I don’t know. Yes, call me a cynic, but I am absolutely sure that hadn’t there been such a thing as the Nobel peace prize or similar versions of national, or state-level, or independent accolades, many of these millionaires and billionaires would have given up on their charitable endeavours. After having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt in his mind. The guilt of having everything in this world.
Abhaidev (The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit)
Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.
Avis J. Williams
It’s amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You’ll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.
Thomas J. Stanley (The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy)
I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.
Rajasaraswathii
Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth
Andrew Carnegie
Thoughts create emotions, emotions create feelings and feelings create behaviour. So it’s very important that our thoughts are positive, to attract the right people, events and circumstances into our lives.
Avis J. Williams (The Psychic Mind: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth)
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
WEALTH PRINCIPLE: You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don’t.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
It’s the same with people as well as all other living organisms: if you are not growing, you are dying.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Remember: what you focus on expands. As I often say in our training, “Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
I don’t know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn’t offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones. The results will eventually speak for themselves.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
We can’t control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we can’t control.
Avis J. Williams
The universe only exist within us. All of what is outside of us is also within us.
Avis J. Williams
Rich people, as we’ve said earlier, take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set “It will work because I’ll make it work.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
How can I have both?” This question will change your life. It will take you from a model of scarcity and limitation to a universe of possibilities and abundance. This
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
I am an excellent receiver. I am open and willing to receive massive amounts of money into my life.” Touch
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.
Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.
Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.
Avis J. Williams
The real winners I've met in life weren't necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up.
Curtis Rivers (Seven Paths to Freedom)
most cherished desires of present-day Westerners are shaped by romantic, nationalist, capitalist and humanist myths that have been around for centuries. Friends giving advice often tell each other, ‘Follow your heart.’ But the heart is a double agent that usually takes its instructions from the dominant myths of the day, and the very recommendation to ‘follow your heart’ was implanted in our minds by a combination of nineteenth-century Romantic myths and twentieth-century consumerist myths. The Coca-Cola Company, for example, has marketed Diet Coke around the world under the slogan ‘Diet Coke. Do what feels good.’ Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order. Let’s consider, for example, the popular desire to take a holiday abroad. There is nothing natural or obvious about this. A chimpanzee alpha male would never think of using his power in order to go on holiday into the territory of a neighbouring chimpanzee band. The elite of ancient Egypt spent their fortunes building pyramids and having their corpses mummified, but none of them thought of going shopping in Babylon or taking a skiing holiday in Phoenicia. People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism. Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can. We must open ourselves to a wide spectrum of emotions; we must sample various kinds of relationships; we must try different cuisines; we must learn to appreciate different styles of music. One of the best ways to do all that is to break free from our daily routine, leave behind our familiar setting, and go travelling in distant lands, where we can ‘experience’ the culture, the smells, the tastes and the norms of other people. We hear again and again the romantic myths about ‘how a new experience opened my eyes and changed my life’. Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If we feel that something is missing or not quite right, then we probably need to buy a product (a car, new clothes, organic food) or a service (housekeeping, relationship therapy, yoga classes). Every television commercial is another little legend about how consuming some product or service will make life better. 18. The Great Pyramid of Giza. The kind of thing rich people in ancient Egypt did with their money. Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism. Their marriage has given birth to the infinite ‘market of experiences’, on which the modern tourism industry is founded. The tourism industry does not sell flight tickets and hotel bedrooms. It sells experiences. Paris is not a city, nor India a country – they are both experiences, the consumption of which is supposed to widen our horizons, fulfil our human potential, and make us happier. Consequently, when the relationship between a millionaire and his wife is going through a rocky patch, he takes her on an expensive trip to Paris. The trip is not a reflection of some independent desire, but rather of an ardent belief in the myths of romantic consumerism. A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted. Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of these pyramids change from one culture to the other. They may take the form, for example, of a suburban cottage with a swimming pool and an evergreen lawn, or a gleaming penthouse with an enviable view. Few question the myths that cause us to desire the pyramid in the first place.
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
When you are in the highest vibrational state you will not feel the need to; over eat, over spend money, insist on having a certain relationship, or even become a millionaire because you have shifted into the abundance that you are and from this place you dont feel any lack at all.
Renae A. Sauter (An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment)
The lesson is simple. If you want to move to a higher level of life, you have to be willing to let go of some of your old ways of thinking and being and adopt new ones. The results will eventually speak for themselves.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Listen up, my friends: Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn’t. And although love may make the world go round, it sure doesn’t pay for the building of any hospitals, churches, or homes. It also doesn’t feed anybody.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
This reminds me of the story about a woman who prepares a ham for dinner by cutting off both ends. Her bewildered husband asks why she cuts off the ends. She replies, “That’s how my mom cooked it.” Well, it just so happened that her mom was coming for dinner that night. So they asked her why she cut off the ends of the ham. Mom replies, “That’s how my mom cooked it.” So they decide to call Grandma on the phone and ask why she cut off the ends of the ham. Her answer? “Because my pan was too small!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
no thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost. It will either move you toward happiness and success or away from it. It will either empower you or disempower you. That’s why it is imperative you choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
It’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible. So what does that mean? It means that if you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, the humanity in which he suffers, the creation in which he shines. He looks at humanity so much that he sees the soul, he looks at creation so much that he sees God. He dreams, he feels that he is great; he dreams some more, and he feels that he is tender. From the egotism of the suffering man, he passes to the compassion of the contemplating man. A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all. In thinking of the countless enjoyments nature offers, gives, and gives lavishly to open souls and refuses to closed souls, he, a millionaire of intelligence, comes to grieve for the millionaires of money. All hatred leaves his heart as all light enters his mind. And is he unhappy? No. The poverty of a young man is never miserable.
Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
One of the principles we teach in our programs is “If you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon.” Poor people don’t even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they’re not successful. Well, they just found out. You get what you truly intend to get. If you want to get rich, your goal has to be rich. Not to have enough to pay the bills, and not just to have enough to be comfortable. Rich means rich!
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
The real problem here is that we’re all dying. All of us. Every day the cells weaken and the fibres stretch and the heart gets closer to its last beat. The real cost of living is dying, and we’re spending days like millionaires: a week here, a month there, casually spunked until all you have left are the two pennies on your eyes. Personally, I like the fact we’re going to die. There’s nothing more exhilarating than waking up every morning and going ‘WOW! THIS IS IT! THIS IS REALLY IT!’ It focuses the mind wonderfully. It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realise that, in the scheme of things, you really don’t have time to sit on the sofa in your pants watching Homes Under the Hammer. Death is not a release, but an incentive. The more focused you are on your death, the more righteously you live your life. My traditional closing-time rant – after the one where I cry that they closed that amazing chippy on Tollington Road; the one that did the pickled eggs – is that humans still believe in an afterlife. I genuinely think it’s the biggest philosophical problem the earth faces. Even avowedly non-religious people think they’ll be meeting up with nana and their dead dog, Crackers, when they finally keel over. Everyone thinks they’re getting a harp. But believing in an afterlife totally negates your current existence. It’s like an insidious and destabilising mental illness. Underneath every day – every action, every word – you think it doesn’t really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise. You make it up with your parents, and become a better person and lose that final stone in heaven. And learn how to speak French. You’ll have time, after all! It’s eternity! And you’ll have wings, and it’ll be sunny! So, really, who cares what you do now? This is really just some lacklustre waiting room you’re only going to be in for 20 minutes, during which you will have no wings at all, and are forced to walk around, on your feet, like pigs do. If we wonder why people are so apathetic and casual about every eminently avoidable horror in the world – famine, war, disease, the seas gradually turning piss-yellow and filling with ringpulls and shattered fax machines – it’s right there. Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside of jigsaws. Only when the majority of the people on this planet believe – absolutely – that they are dying, minute by minute, will we actually start behaving like fully sentient, rational and compassionate beings. For whilst the appeal of ‘being good’ is strong, the terror of hurtling, unstoppably, into unending nullity is a lot more effective. I’m really holding out for us all to get The Fear. The Fear is my Second Coming. When everyone in the world admits they’re going to die, we’ll really start getting some stuff done.
Caitlin Moran
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.
T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
They're kicking us out saying it's time to close We're leaning on each other try'na beat the cold Carry your shoes and I give you my coat Walking these streets like they're paved gold Anymore excuses is not to go Neither one of us want to take that taxi home Singing our hearts, standing on chairs Spending the time like we were millionaires Laughing our heads off, the two of us stared Spending the time like we were millionaires Lost my heart and I hope to die Seeing that sunlight hit your eyes Been up all night but you still look amazing to me Half the time of the night you only dream About if God came down he could take me now Cause in my mind, yeah we will always be
The Script
Obviously there is no love when there is no real respect, when you don’t respect another, whether he is your servant or your friend. Have you not noticed that you are not respectful, kindly, generous, to your servants, to people who are so-called “below” you ? You have respect for those above, for your boss, for the millionaire, for the man with a large house and a title, for the man who can give you a better position, a better job, from whom you can get something. But you kick those below you… You can know love only when all these things have stopped, come to an end….How few of us are generous, forgiving, merciful! You are generous when it pays you, you are merciful when you can see something in return. When these things disappear, when these things don’t occupy your mind and when the things of the mind don’t fill your heart, then there is love; and love alone can transform the present madness and insanity in the world—not systems, not theories…
J. Krishnamurti (Relationships to Oneself, to Others, to the World)
I am going to make you what you may perhaps consider rather a singular proposition. It is this, that if you don’t like me, say so at once, and we will part now, before we have time to know anything more of each other, and I will endeavour not to cross your path again unless you seek me out. But if on the contrary, you do like me,—if you find something in my humour or turn of mind congenial to your own disposition, give me your promise that you will be my friend and comrade for a while, say for a few months at any rate. I can take you into the best society, and introduce you to the prettiest women in Europe as well as the most brilliant men. I know them all, and I believe I can be useful to you. But if there is the smallest aversion to me lurking in the depths of your nature”—here he paused,—then resumed with extraordinary solemnity—“in God’s name give it full way and let me go,—because I swear to you in all sober earnest that I am not what I seem!
Marie Corelli (The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire)
The consequences of the regulation regarding the use of footpaths were rather serious for me. I always went out for a walk through President Street to an open plain. President Kruger’s house was in this street – a very modest, unostentatious building, without a garden and not distinguishable from other houses in its neighbourhood. The houses of many of the millionaires in Pretoria were far more pretentious, and were surrounded by gardens. Indeed President Kruger’s simplicity was proverbial. Only the presence of a police patrol before the house indicated that it belonged to some official. I nearly always went along the footpaths past this patrol without the slightest hitch or hindrance. Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: ‘Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.’ ‘You need not be sorry,’ I said. ‘What does the poor man know? All coloured people are the same to him. He no doubt treats Negroes just as he has treated me. I have made it a rule not to go to court in respect of any personal grievance. So I do not intend to proceed against him.’ ‘That is just like you,’ said Mr Coates, ‘but do think it over again. We must teach such men a lesson.’ He then spoke to the policeman and reprimanded him. I could not follow their talk, as it was in Dutch, the policeman being a Boer. But he apologized to me, for which there was no need. I had already forgiven him. But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man’s place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk. The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations. I thus made an intimate study of the hard condition of the Indian settlers, not only by reading and hearing about it, but by personal experience. I saw that South Africa was no country for a self-respecting Indian, and my mind became more and more occupied with the question as to how this state of things might be improved.
Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi: An Autobiography)
A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work in itself is good in itself—for slaves, at least. This sentiment still survives, and it has piled up mountains of useless drudgery. I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think. A rich man who happens to be intellectually honest, if he is questioned about the improvement of working conditions, usually says something like this: "We know that poverty is unpleasant; in fact, since it is so remote, we rather enjoy harrowing ourselves with the thought of its unpleasantness. But don’t expect us to do anything about it. We are sorry fort you lower classes, just as we are sorry for a cat with the mange, of your condition. We feel that you are much safer as you are. The present state of affairs suits us, and we are not going to take the risk of setting you free, even by an extra hour a day. So, dear brothers, since evidently you must sweat to pay for our trips to Italy, sweat and be damned to you.” This is particularly the attitude of intelligent, cultivated people; one can read the substance if it in a hundred essays. Very few cultivated people have less than (say) four hundred pounds a year, and naturally they side with the rich, because they imagine that any liberty conceded to the poor is a threat to their own liberty. foreseeing some dismal Marxian Utopia as the alternative, the educated man prefers to keep things as they are. Possibly he does not like his fellow-rich very much, but he supposes that even the vulgarest of them are less inimical to his pleasures, more his kind of people, than the poor, and that he had better stand by them. It is this fear of a supposedly dangerous mob that makes nearly all intelligent people conservative in their opinions. Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothings else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty? In my copy of Villon’s poems the editor has actually thought it necessary to explain the line “Ne pain ne voyent qu'aux fenestres” by a footnote; so remote is even hunger from the educated man’s experience. From this ignorance a superstitious fear of the mob results quite naturally. The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day’s liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. “Anything,” he thinks, “any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.
George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London)